FOTI #59: Nobody Wants the Free U2 Album

On this episode, we discuss the new Apple products and the internet content they spawned; we explore an amazing new website with thousands of musical genres; and we delight in the music of Springtime Carnivore.

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#3. Ultimate Roommate Prank with Facebook Ads

A clever fellow played a masterful prank on his roommate by creating a Facebook ad campaign that only the roommate could see — and then placing ads that were disturbingly specific. It worked brilliantly.

Our Musical Guest: SPRINGTIME CARNIVORE

This fortnight, we enjoy the incredible music of Springtime Carnivore! The self-titled debut comes out this fall on Autumn Tone Records. This is actually a repeat musical guest appearance of sorts, because the SC mastermind, Greta Morgan, was also the lead singer of Gold Motel, a past guest. Great tunes all around! Check out the lead single, “Sun Went Black,” or play this marvelous clip:

Part 2: Greg Bennett, mildly famous from a stint on Real Housewives of New Jersey as Albie and Christopher Manzo’s “witty gay roommate“, tweeted out the police video. A “friend of a friend” then sent him a photo of the group earlier that night at dinner, which he then posted to Twitter as well.

Part 3: Reddit detectives and other intersleuths got to work trying to determine who these evil people are. Philly sports comedy Twitter fellow @FanSince09 shared the restaurant photo posted by Greg Bennett, and his many Philly-based followers tweeted back that the dining room is from La Viola, a nearby Italian restaurant.

Part 5: Philadelphia police acknowledged the assist from weird twitter, and Detective Joseph Murray tweeted, “S/O to @FanSince09 This is what makes my job easy. Sure, it’s up to me to make the arrest but we are all in this together. Let’s be clear here. No arrests made. Central Detectives have done a ton of work and have a lot more to do. (Not a law & order episode)”

Part 6: From all reports, the suspects were then arrested after turning themselves in. They appeared to be Catholic Archbishop Wood High School classmates who were reuniting. One of them, an assistant basketball coach at Archbishop Wood, was fired by the diocese after his involvement in the attack was made public. They claimed self-defense, but witnesses said otherwise. Because, obviously fourteen people would not have to self-defend against two.

The bottom line is still disturbing (anti-gay hate crimes are horrible, and Facebook Graph Search knows way too much about all of us) — but at least the Internet did some good in this instance!

Shoutout to the Likers!

Y’all best be following us on Facebook. That’s where you’ll find all the great posts from Alpine, Alison, and amazing folks like Liker TJ, who found the Facebook Ad Prank item from the report card!

Here’s the countdown of our top Likers of the Fortnight:

#5. Liker Chip VD for this comment about our last episode: “Hearing Alison struggle with the word ‘fappening’ restored my faith in people.”

#2.Liker C. Dave introduced us to our ICS, Every Noise at Once. A gift that keeps on giving.

And the Liker of the Fortnight is Liker Nic S! He found the amazing 4Chan “iOS 8 Wave Charge” prank that caused some pitiable fools to destroy their expensive phones in the microwave. Only the latest contribution from this stalwart and true Liker! Thank you Liker Nic S!

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